Sentences with phrase «about housing prices»

We go back to chatting, about housing prices and regional accents, and everyone meets each others» eyes.

Think about housing prices for a moment as shown in the chart below.

«We're a little concerned about housing prices in the Greater Vancouver area and Toronto,» Brian Porter, CEO of Scotiabank, told Bloomberg TV shortly after the bank's latest financial results were released.

The debate over what to do about housing prices is hobbled by a lack of reliable data.

There are just so many stories about house prices and house - building, including:

Putting aside the fact that somebody could be more concerned about house prices than human suffering, just think about what that statement means.

Details of the 10p tax compensation package could be overshadowed after photographers outside Downing Street see documents outlining government fears about house price falls.

Additionally there was a rule of thumb stated on the Motley Fool website (I cant for the life of me find the link) stating that a good rule of thumb about house prices is to do a quick calculation to determine if you should buy in a housing market: If (Price of house) / (monthly rent * 12) < 20, you should consider buying.

(you're upset about housing price increases?

Now, I have an obvious issue with this misuse of the term «investment» (especially as it pertains to the way portfolio managers and retail «investors» use it), but it also got me thinking about housing price returns on a larger scale.

This video, part of the REALTOR ® University Speaker Series, contains Dr. Andy Leventis's full talk about Housing Price Indexes, why they are necessary, the trends that the most popular indexes are seeing and some of the problems associated in tracking price data.

This video contains highlights of Dr. Andy Leventis's talk about Housing Price Indexes, including the trends that the most popular indexes are seeing.

Still, Canadians across the country are bullish about house prices.

Not exact matches

After years of brushing off warnings about the danger of runaway house prices in Canada's hottest markets, the banks are waking up to the risks

«Given that the decline in home prices had so much to do with the de-leveraging that was taking place on the consumer side,» a recent 10 % rise in the housing market «is a key reason for optimism about growth improving,» Marple said.

But for all of the attention and debate on the matter, we understand shockingly little about just how much of the market is foreign - owned and what affect that has, particularly on house prices.

In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters about the existence of a bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

In response to a question about whether a rate cut amounted to pouring gasoline on the overheated housing market, Poloz said «We admit that these conditions are likely to cause financial imbalances,» in some cases, but that the Bank's primary goal is to ameliorate the «financial shock» to the economy caused by the drop in oil prices.

It is anomalous to see financial journalists talk about the futility of market timing in the stock market but then give the impression houses should be sold to avoid an anticipated collapse in prices.

When it comes to the final test of value, it's not as much about the price of the house as the perception that the buyer is getting a deal.

In the span of a few days this week and last, several big - bank CEOs and chief economists let loose a flurry of warnings about surging home prices in Vancouver and Toronto, where it now costs an average of $ 1.5 million and $ 1.3 million, respectively, to buy a detached house.

«If you want to get serious about controlling debt and house prices, double the down payment requirement on CMHC - insured mortgages in the overheated areas, or tie it to the size of the mortgage issued.»

Since then, housing prices have grown by 4 % annually, or about 1.2 percentage points more than inflation every year.

«On the one hand, achieving the medium - term inflation objective of 1.0 - 3.0 % remains a priority for the RBNZ, but on the other hand, the RBNZ is still concerned about financial instability risks stemming from still - elevated house prices.»

Since 2005, the Multiple Listing Service's Home Price Index has climbed 55 %, while housing prices have jumped about 90 % over the past decade.

House and Senate Democrats have introduced legislation aimed at lowering drug prices through a series of aggressive measures, including by requiring biopharma companies to reveal far more information about their R&D, manufacturing, and other costs.

Both Price and Gottlieb were questioned on their intimate involvement with biopharmaceutical and health care companies by lawmakers; Price specifically was the subject of sharp ethics questions about his financial investments in medical firms that would also benefit from legislation he was pushing while serving in the House of Representatives.

Asked about mortgage insurance — which almost one out of every two homebuyers in Canada must buy and which can add thousands of dollars to the price of a house — Cran draws a blank.

Mylan CEO Heather Bresch trekked to the House of Representatives on Wednesday to testify about her company's controversial price hike for the EpiPen.

«A stress test that claims that if the Dow falls by 60 %, the unemployment rate rises to 12 %, housing prices decline substantially more than they did during the 2008 recession, GDP declines by 6 - 7 % — and that all of that can happen and no bank will be in serious financial trouble or have any problem of being undercapitalized or illiquid — I kind of think says more about itself than it says about the health of the banking system.»

The jump in home prices in Stockton and neighboring Lodi — up about 92 percent over the past five years — is dramatic evidence of the ripple effects of the Bay Area's tight housing market and the increasingly out - of - reach cost of living here.

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That was part of our thinking in late 2013, when inflation was running persistently below target: we were concerned about the downside risks to inflation, but decided against easing policy further to avoid exacerbating growing household indebtedness and elevated house prices.

And those condos are about 40 % of the price of houses.

While many are skeptical about whether or not this tax was the right policy tool, an influx of foreign investment capital, as seen in the Lower Mainland and other urban centres, does contribute to skyrocketing housing prices.

From about 1945 to mid-1980, families were able to ride a wave of rising house prices.

The July housing data has been somewhat disappointing, but you must keep in mind that the pricing information runs about a month behind all of the other data.

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At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.

I sold my SF Rental house that I owned since 2005 this year b / c someone paid my about 30X annual gross rent, which is a very rich price.

«People don't believe housing is in a bubble and don't want to hear talk about prices being a little bit bubblish.»

For home buyers and home sellers, knowing current market value helps you make smart decisions about how much to offer on a house you want, or how to price a home you're selling.

The world is awash in cheap debt, and whether we're talking about wealthy foreigners or local residents desperate not to be shut out of the market, the siren call of fast - rising house prices is too powerful to ignore.

The citizens of Palo Alto have done all they can to drive housing prices through the roof, and then they turn around and complain about how they can no longer afford to live here.

And by that we mean bring an end to double - digit price gains, bring about a steep correction in house prices to levels the city's lowly middle - class incomes can afford, bring about an end to staggering household debt levels and ultimately, bring about the end of housing as the economy's engine of growth?

Housing prices during the real estate bubble leading to the Great Recession returned about 6 % per year.

According to The Economist's interactive chart on U.S. housing price indices, the average U.S. market recovery between 2006 peak and 2012 trough has been about 63.9 %.

Nonetheless, legislators at the House hearing voiced concern about a price tag they described as unprecedented in Maryland.

-- Some Maryland House members expressed apprehension about the $ 5 billion price tag to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Montgomery County.